Just get rid of pitchers altogether. Just have the batter toss the ball up in the air to himself and hit it.

This reminds me of a contest the Cubs did probably 15-20 years ago where someone would be selected in a drawing for the chance to hit a home run out of Wrigley and they would win something like a new car. When the big voice guy on the commercial is going through all the terms and conditions, he casually mentions the home run must be hit fungo style.

Even Bonds or McGwire in their prime roided up playing days probably couldn't hit a fungo out of Wrigley, let alone some fat bleacher bum.

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Just get rid of pitchers altogether. Just have the batter toss the ball up in the air to himself and hit it.

This reminds me of a contest the Cubs did probably 15-20 years ago where someone would be selected in a drawing for the chance to hit a home run out of Wrigley and they would win something like a new car. When the big voice guy on the commercial is going through all the terms and conditions, he casually mentions they home run must be hit fungo style.

Even Bonds or McGwire in their prime roided up playing days probably couldn't hit a fungo out of Wrigley, let alone some fat bleacher bum.

That's hilarious

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I could see this being effective maybe a few starts in the rotation if you did a tandem thing every time -- Player A goes for 4 innings, then player B always relieves him for 3 or 4. You could do a six man rotation with four regular guys and these two going every third game.

One game, this should work, over the season, I do not know. My thought is that one of the reasons that a reliever can be effective is the whole 'only see them a few times.' That's why I was concerned with throwing Chapman out as often as they did in the series, the hitters could start figuring him out. Especially because relievers tend to only have two pitches.

I dont really like it for one game even. Too many points of failure. Let's say you use seven pitchers over a 9 inning game. Six of those guys are lights out, 0 ER. 1 guy is not and he gets lit up for 4 ER. Now you've used 7 pitchers, six of whom had great performances, and all you got out of it was an average/slightly above average outcome that you can get get with most any reasonably decent major league starter. Too much can go wrong.

Just get rid of pitchers altogether. Just have the batter toss the ball up in the air to himself and hit it.

This reminds me of a contest the Cubs did probably 15-20 years ago where someone would be selected in a drawing for the chance to hit a home run out of Wrigley and they would win something like a new car. When the big voice guy on the commercial is going through all the terms and conditions, he casually mentions they home run must be hit fungo style.

Even Bonds or McGwire in their prime roided up playing days probably couldn't hit a fungo out of Wrigley, let alone some fat bleacher bum.